This is Part Four of a series of articles on Java.next. In Part Four, I will begin to explore how the Java.next languages (JRuby, Groovy, Clojure, and Scala) deal with concurrency. Concurrency is a ...

Immutability in Application State: Managing State with Clojure's Immutable Data Structures Explore how to manage application state immutably in Clojure, leveraging pure functions and immutable data ...

When it comes to creating objects in Java, we can use fluent approaches, especially for complex objects containing lots of fields, that will increase readability and also adaptability allowing us to ...

Data immutability is one of the core principles of Functional Programming: means that once data is created, it should not be modified nor updated, and instead new data should be created. Easier to ...

Abstract: Though immutability has been long-proposed as a way to prevent bugs in software, little is known about how to make immutability support in programming languages effective for software ...

In response to my recent blog posting Immutable Java Objects, Matt brought up a good point of discussion related to making Java classes truly immutable by declaring them as final so that they cannot ...